1 Address of Petitioner: Scott P. Roeder C/O ... - Juridic.org

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14 once in a while, even at the highest court of the land. Unfortunately, rather than upholding this ideal, our nation's courts encourage attorneys to be mindful of their social, political, and financial currency more so than any underlying issues, the merits of law, or the rights of the client. Indeed, under the Certiorari Act, the U.S. Supreme Court is leading the way in this respect, by expressly reserving the right to ignore matters of legal merit, including "the misapplication of a properly stated rule of law." U.S. Supreme Court Rule 10. Although I had a bona fide agreement with appointed counsel to pursue a necessity defense, counsel omitted key questions related to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-212). This deficiency prejudiced the defense with respect to a necessity defense in a manner so serious as to deprive me of a fair trial and likely acquittal. For if the unborn can be victims of violence, then it is reasonable to protect them from violence. The legal standard of reasonableness should not be measured by the willingness of a society to draw the line according to the anarchy of its psychological rationalizations. Since the law recognizes that the unborn can indeed be victims of violence, it must also recognize the courage of those who find it in their hearts to accept the necessity of defending them from violence. To do otherwise means giving in to the anarchy of conscience at the expense of innocent children. Perhaps appointed counsel's omission of questions relating to the Unborn Victims Act was intended to satisfy Mr. Ashcroft's mantra about being mindful of one's "currency" with the court. Though the legal merit of such questions is overtly critical to the my case, the U.S. Supreme Court has created a completely different standard of what constitutes a question of legal merit under the Certiorari Act, whereby presentation of even the most critical questions may be deliberately avoided by counsel as "a losing proposition" depending simply on what the court has

15 "signaled," to again quote from Mr. Ashcroft. Instead, every defendant should have the right to have his or her case settled according to law. While the Unborn Victims Act makes an exception for children who are legally versus illegally aborted, a coroner would not be able to distinguish the two on this basis alone. (In other words, one child pulled feet first from the womb and thrown into the dumpster naked with a stab wound to the back of the head and the cranial contents removed will look just like any other to the coroner, regardless of whether the woman wanted it done or not.) In this respect, the trial court should have been forced to address whether they are beings so far inferior that they have no rights we are bound to respect, as Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, 407 (1856), puts it, or whether they instead deserve the equal protection of the laws, as the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States puts it. Pursuit of this question is critical to my defense because the latter establishes the right of each child be protected by another person, in this case, myself, as an innocent third party entitled to defense from homicide. Instead, being mindful of his currency with the court, appointed counsel let the court slip by this critical question, by allowing the court to make a false statement to the effect that abortion has already been thoroughly debated. On the contrary, as Justice Stevens and Roe v. Wade author Justice Blackmun point out 20 years after Roe, neither any Member of the U.S. Supreme Court nor the U.S. solicitor general has ever so much as even "questioned" whether the children in question have rights we are bound to respect, as provided by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; instead, the only debate has been over to what extent should the states be allowed to override both a woman's decision to refuse an abortion as well as her decision to choose an abortion; indeed, there cannot have been any meaningful debate without someone at least having "questioned" the matter. Jacobson v.